Winter of Worship

Steeped in loss—of climate and childhood, of fathers and friends— Winter of Worship finds survival in our tender human connections. Told through an ever-queer lens, Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s fourth collection, Winter of Worship , is a patchwork of the pastoral and the “litter swirled around us”—a pandemic, global warming, a hometown hit by storms of fentanyl and Oxycontin scripts. A book of elegy told in ghazals, “Marble Runs,” and other forms, these poems reckon with loss: of climate, of fathers,